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On what ground do you claim that DC and PR clearly deserve statehood? I think to take an incredibly complex economic, social, and political decision and assume its outcome is influenced in any significant capacity by the demographic makeup of those regions is ridiculous.

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What is complex about it? That sounds like an excuse for not making an actual argument. There are lots of excuses when it comes to not granting statehood but they are invariably self-serving. They pay taxes but their votes don't count. We had a revolution once where that was a major factor. Puerto Rico is near the median in terms of state population. For over two down decades it has been clear that a majority of Puerto Ricans do not want to remain a territory.

If you can't imagine how the induction of a new state is an overtly complex task then I'm not sure how reasonable of a discussion we can have. I don't have a strong opinion one way or another primarily because my field of expertise lies outside of politics, sociology, and economics. On the surface yeah, I'm 100% for taxation with proper representation. I'm not well educated enough on the issue to know what 2nd and 3rd order effects it may have though

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